Meet the Doula-Khadijah Bansfield
Khadijah is an AMANI certified doula and childbirth educator, a birth assistant, and a student midwife. She has lived abroad for many years where she became a doula in 2012 and attended dozens of births and raised childbirth education awareness to hundreds of women. Khadijah is very passionate about advocating for women’s rights, especially childbirth rights and raising awareness about the importance of postpartum care. One of her favorite sayings are ” It take a village to raise a child, but a community of love and support to raise a mother.”
She has attended many conferences and workshops and has had the pleasure of meeting popular birth icons like midwives Ina May Gaskin and Gail Tully, and pediatrician and breastfeeding specialist Dr. Jack Newman.
She is currently working on a couple of projects as a presenter for an online birth conference and an ambassador for the VBAC Summit alongside founder of Naturelle VBAC(UK).
Khadijah resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her five children. In her spare time, you can find her baking, reading and doing her best to make a difference in the birth world.
Jodi Graves, M.S., CD, CBE
Jodi is a certified birth & postpartum doula and nutritionist and has been serving families of SE Michigan for over 26 years.
Jodi is the founding owner & CEO of Michigan Family Doulas, an agency dedicated to helping families thrive in their transition into parenthood. MFD has nearly 80 years of combined experience in all aspects of birth & postpartum recovery, postpartum nutrition and infant care in families of all shapes and sizes.